Easter: The price of chocolate explodes and if you still tasted eggs and rabbits on the sunflower?

The price of your Easter chocolate reaches peaks. Expect to pay 14% more for your rabbits, hens and bells this year. Fortunately, a cheaper solution will arrive: chocolate without cocoa. Yes, it exists.

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Rabbits, chickens, eggs … Easter bells spend in a few days. But this year your wallet could create a face. Because the offer of these chocolate sweets is likely to lead your budget. Expect at 14% for prices for Easter chocolates 2025 compared to last year, reveals UFC-QUC Choisir. And if prices increased by 11% for major brands such as Lindt, Kinder or Milka, the prices of products with distributors (MDDD) even fly by 23%!

For example, according to the UFC report, the price of 200 -gram milk chocolate rabbits in E.Clerc increased by 34%to EUR 3.99 this year to EUR 3.99. Chocolate figures between chocolate and the system U recorded their average price increase of 80 cent for the same period. Reason? Cocoa lessons have been working for many monthsThe result of a combination of several factors: three consecutive harvesting deficit in the main production countries (Coast of Ivory and Ghana) and high global demand. ”This convergence led to a very strong increase in cocoa lessons :: +365% in January 2025, compared to January 2023“, Gilles Rouviière, General Secretary of the Chocolate Syndicat.

20 to 30% cheaper than traditional chocolate

Despite everything, you will find products on the shelves of your shops. ”Companies in this sector doubled their efforts and mobilized to maintain this affordable pleasure; Everyone can find Easter chocolates adapted to their budget“It provides the General Secretary of the Union. With an envelope of approximately 24 euros per household, Easter remains the second highlight of chocolate consumption after Christmas.

But for consumers who find a remark too salty, there are alternatives like this Easter chocolate … without cocoa! Mark? Breeding, from Alsatan Chocolatier, Abtey. It isconfectionery made of sunflower seeds and grape seeds. They are fermented, baked and crushed to become a powder that reproduces the taste and appearance of classic chocolate. The recipe is complemented by milk, sugar and vegetable fats. Good news? Breeding items are 20 to 30% cheaper than conventional chocolate products. For example, the price of a breeding monkey (120 grams) is displayed at 3.40 euros when the Lindt (100 grams) chocolate rabbit (100 grams) is sold in Carrefour EUR 4.55. The Lidl Lidl brand offers four recipes: a rabbit superhero (EUR 4,49), a unicorn egg and a dragon egg (EUR 3,99) and mini eggs that are hidden (EUR 9.99).